chandra thomas

chandra thomas is an award-winning writer-actor-producer with a passion for character-driven stories centering marginalized voices. Her work has been presented at Primary Stages, Barrow Group, Naked Angels Theatre Company, Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Downtown Urban Theatre Festival, HERE Arts Center, Dreamcatcher Rep, Passage Theatre, among others. Her play THE BUZZER was just named a Featured Finalist in the Blue Ink Playwriting Award and is an Echo Theatre Young Playwrights fellow.

chandra earned dual BA degrees from Vanderbilt University and holds an MFA from Columbia University. She’s currently a writer on the CBS comedy, MOM. Originally from New York, she’s the proud child of immigrants, has gleefully lived all over the country and around the world, and absolutely loves...

chandra thomas is an award-winning writer-actor-producer with a passion for character-driven stories centering marginalized voices. Her work has been presented at Primary Stages, Barrow Group, Naked Angels Theatre Company, Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Downtown Urban Theatre Festival, HERE Arts Center, Dreamcatcher Rep, Passage Theatre, among others. Her play THE BUZZER was just named a Featured Finalist in the Blue Ink Playwriting Award and is an Echo Theatre Young Playwrights fellow.

chandra earned dual BA degrees from Vanderbilt University and holds an MFA from Columbia University. She’s currently a writer on the CBS comedy, MOM. Originally from New York, she’s the proud child of immigrants, has gleefully lived all over the country and around the world, and absolutely loves baseball.

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Scripts

THE BUZZER

by chandra thomas

Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
romantic comedy

AMELIA and her longtime partner MATTHEW are applying to foster a kid. The Newark homeowners, though of color, are considered part of the gentrifying wave that's radically changing the city. They are reminded of this fact loudly and often by their sole tenant, OCTAVIA. The couple navigates the surprise of Amelia's ex, DAVIDA unexpectedly showing up to evaluate the couple's foster application. When young TALARIQ...

AMELIA and her longtime partner MATTHEW are applying to foster a kid. The Newark homeowners, though of color, are considered part of the gentrifying wave that's radically changing the city. They are reminded of this fact loudly and often by their sole tenant, OCTAVIA. The couple navigates the surprise of Amelia's ex, DAVIDA unexpectedly showing up to evaluate the couple's foster application. When young TALARIQ becomes their foster son, the couple's collective and individual understandings of class, race/ethnicity, family and love are strained and tested.

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THE EDGE

by chandra thomas

Cast Size
8
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
period,
verse

It's late summer 1999 in a "working-middle-class" public housing project in East Harlem, New York when a most unlikely group come together to represent their beloved housing project at a citywide step-dance competition. But, along the road to hopeful victory, they discover that their ragtag step team becomes the family they each never had and, perhaps, never knew they needed. “The 'Edge” blends poetry, spoken...

It's late summer 1999 in a "working-middle-class" public housing project in East Harlem, New York when a most unlikely group come together to represent their beloved housing project at a citywide step-dance competition. But, along the road to hopeful victory, they discover that their ragtag step team becomes the family they each never had and, perhaps, never knew they needed. “The 'Edge” blends poetry, spoken word, music and dance along the way.

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